Could someone add this to the NetBSD operations FAQ (if indeed such
a document exists)? This would be very handy; unfortunately I (and
others, I'm sure) tend to gloss over things, or read and then throw
away important things, remembering them just long enough for a boss
to walk into one's cube and jar the details from our heads.
Mike Long sez:
/*
* You can use vnd devices (See vnd(4), vnconfig(8)) to swap to files.
* Make sure lines like the following are in your kernel config:
*
* config netbsd root on sd0 swap on sd0 and vnd0
* pseudo-device vnd 4
*
* Then something like this should work:
*
* dd if=/dev/zero of=$SWAPFILE bs=1k count=$SWAPSIZE
* vnconfig -c /dev/vnd0b $SWAPFILE
* swapon /dev/vnd0b
*
* I don't use NFS, but you may want to read diskless(8).
I use NFS but I don't inhale.
*/
--*greywolf;
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